Return of the Moon-Nazis in Creative Commons-licensed film from Star Wreck creators

I'm involved with a film project called "Iron Sky", which released a 2 1/2 minute teaser today:
"In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. It's 2018, and now they're coming back"

What makes this interesting is that it's the second film by the people who made Star Wreck, which is the most successful feature-length Internet-distributed film of all time. Star Wreck was made by 3000 people, has been download 8 million times, is under a CC by-nd-nc license, and made good money both through DVD sales, and through an eventual deal with Universal.

My role in this is that I provided the seed funding for Iron Sky, and I'm head of the board of wreckamovie.com -- a collaborative film-making web site (also CC based), that was built from the Star Wreck experience (and is being used to make Iron Sky)

Star Wreck started as a bunch of friends making home movie-Star Trek ripoffs, and they have quite a nerd following in Finland & elsewhere. People have been waiting for this movie to come out for years, and it’s nice to see they’re getting closer. It will be the biggest Nazi-Kalevala-Moon pic ever.

These guys better give some credit to Heinlein since the plot is exactly the plot of Rocket ship Galileo.
It was one of Heinlein’s young adult books, so it involved Teenagers going to the Moon and finding that the Nazis had escaped to the Moon to keep up their plan for world domination.
It wasn’t one of his better books.

The first half sounds an awful lot like Billy Holiday’s version of “Gloomy Sunday” (which is an incredible song – about a woman committing suicide, after the death of her lover – for those who have never heard it)

Link to wikipedia article on Gloomy Sunday‘s very interesting history. Note the addition of the 3rd verse in the Holiday version, added to make the record more ‘sellable’ (and slightly to it’s detriment on a purely artistic level).

Meh. Is it just me, or does this just seem like a really elaborate opening montage from a video game?

It’s hard to derive much of plot from scenes of masked Moon Nazis riding around on Zundapps and Robotech-type flying machines. The bird pooping part was nice — but does that suggest anything more than tiny moments of scatological comic relief inserted into hours of fascist steampunk porn? I dunno.

On the other hand, “French Revolutionaries on Mars,” now that would be a movie.

okay…a couple of things. First of all the “nazis” never really left as anyone who has followed US politics for the last 7 years can tell you. the yellow lines on the road? WTF. and the motorcycle? again, WTF. other than that, looks pretty awesome….. and I thought the music was perfect.

Kick ass trailer. Very different from hollywood trailers everyone is used to (and brainwashed into thinking should be some kind of standard format you have to follow). Kudos for breaking the mold. (I’m sure the pigeon shit ending and the music confused the hell out of the sheep, LOL.)